If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Drama entered my home last week, but I ushered it to the door and tossed it to the curb.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said "No bablo ingles."

I try to do yoga once a week.

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

Habit-forming products often start as nice-to-haves, but once the habit is formed, they become must-haves.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.